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Old 12-21-2013, 09:10 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Thenorm View Post
wheel wells are high pressure areas, it seems good (At face value) to leave an open path rearward to let that air into the low pressure wake while not letting it adversely disturb the air flowing through the diffuser. I read one study about ducting air from the rear wheel well out through the trunk area into the rear wake.
Hmmm.

Friend of mine with a Corvair thought the wheel well to be a low pressure area, so made a conduit from the engine bay to evacuate hot engine bay air. Worked, did not flow in reverse, he said.

So, wheel bays high pressure or low pressure?
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